New submission from mouad <mouadino at gmail.com>:
While working on issue #12157 [http://bugs.python.org/issue12157], I needed a function that make sure that an operation will not hang forever, for this reason i have create this helper function that support the context manager protocol and accept a timeout as an argument and raise an IOError if the operation didn't terminate before that timeout.
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components: Tests
files: operation_timeout.patch
keywords: patch
messages: 139075
nosy: mouad
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Create a new helper function that enable to test that an operation don't hang more than a given timeout.
type: feature request
versions: Python 3.2
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file22467/operation_timeout.patch
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